Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 331
When Jinling City in the south of the Yangtze River began to be busy after the New Year's Eve, the Ming army in the northwest was also making frequent deployments.

Lu Zhongheng, the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion who secretly led troops to Xiliang, led a group of personal guards on horseback on the border of the Liaokuang in the northwest, looking at the snow-capped mountains at the end of his field of vision. A little more emotion.

In the series of battles that started at the end of the previous year, Lu Zhongheng, who was the commander of the Ganzhou Guard at the time, followed Liao Yongzhong to the south. When Guangdong was pacified, Lu Zhongheng returned to the army. He was promoted from the second rank to the governor's mansion, and replaced Deng Yu, who was transferred to the capital, to guard Xiangyang, the key pass.

The war in Central Shu started early, Lu Zhongheng took the initiative to invite Ying, and was allowed to enter Shu with Liao Yongzhong and Yang Jing.

It's a pity that when the Eastern Route Army was still blocked in the Baidi City, General Chang arrived in Chongqing in a desperate way, and made an emergency landing on Xia Guojun and his officials.

The Eastern Route Army then continued to enter Shu.

General Chang led the North Route Army to make a triumphant return first, while the East Route Army was left to guard Bashu, Liao Yongzhong was stationed in Chongqing, and Yang Jing rushed to Chengdu.

Although I picked the 'peaches', I felt aggrieved from top to bottom.

Lu Zhongheng is also one of them.

Before taking the initiative to invite Ying, Lu Zhongheng just wanted to take advantage of the calmness of the world to make some more achievements.

During these years of fighting, Lu Zhongheng also understood that the lord is a person who clearly distinguishes rewards and punishments, and he...although he is close, but all these years until now, even if he has reached the second rank, in terms of military merit, compared with the group of first rank provincial Pingzhang , I'm afraid it's still a little short of being a Marquis.

If you only have an earl, you'll be happy.

As a result, the middle of Shu was pacified, and Lu Zhongheng invited Ying again, and went north from central Shu to Shaanxi.

Because of the news, there may still be some battles here.

At the moment, recalling all the events of the past year or so, Lu Zhongheng felt inexplicable.

probably...

too fast!
So smooth!
Look back.

Go south, fight all the way to Guangdong, destroy the dead.Going north, although I couldn't experience it in person, was even more exciting. Most of them were destroyed in a blink of an eye. They were about to pass, thinking that they should stop for a while, but unexpectedly, Shu Xia was beaten down just like that.

It seems that there is an extra hand in the dark, and then accelerates all these things.

Otherwise...

After all, who can conquer the world so easily!

Let’s just talk about Zhao Song, Taizu and Taizong’s repeated Northern Expeditions. There were not many soldiers, and they would not be strong. Also vast.

The lord is really blessed by God and man!
When Lu Zhongheng was hesitating whether to ride his horse towards the snow-capped mountains in the southwest, anyway, he was not likely to be discovered in this direction, so he saw several horses coming closer, and the leader of them shouted: "Lu Chen, Tang The general convened a military meeting before the battle and ordered you to return to the camp quickly."

Hearing this, Lu Zhongheng agreed and gave up his plan to see the snow-capped mountains. He rode his horses and joined the order cavalry, and the group quickly headed towards the military camp in the south of Xiliang City.

Xiliang is a name frequently seen in Chinese history books and frontier poems.

To be precise, according to the regulations of the Yuan Dynasty, everyone is currently located in Xiliang Prefecture, which belongs to Yongchang Road in Gansu Province.However, speaking carefully, this Xiliang Prefecture has another name: Wuwei!

Hou Xizheng, the champion of the Han Dynasty, defeated the Xiongnu and set up Wuwei, Jiuquan and Zhangye in the Hexi Corridor.

It's a pity that after the Han Dynasty, most of the northwestern frontier was occupied by foreigners. The names of Wuwei, Jiuquan, and Zhangye, which represent the prestige of the Han family, don't sound very pleasant. More often, this place is still called Liangzhou, or Xiliang.

At present, this city of Xiliang, which the orthodoxy of the Han family has not visited for hundreds of years, has quietly stationed [-] elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.General Tang He, who was supposed to be in Chang'an, did not celebrate even New Year's Eve, and also arrived in this land of Hexi in secret.

All are just for His Majesty the Ming Emperor's edict to 'kill chickens to scare monkeys'.

Things have to start from the beginning.

After the Ming army took most of Shaanxi without bloodshed, because of Jinling's plan, they planned to delay the development of Sichuan and Shu after a year. Therefore, Chang Yuchun's initial business direction was not to go south, but to continue to go west.

Here's one more detail.

Lanzhou, in the impression of most people, should belong to Gansu, and it will still be the capital of Gansu hundreds of years later. At present, according to the administrative division of the old Yuan Dynasty, it belongs to Shaanxi.Just like Xingyuan, the old place of Hanzhong, which should belong to Sichuan Province, in fact, it still belongs to Shaanxi.

This is a common phenomenon in the Yuan Dynasty when the administrative division was carried out.

In order to prevent the local provinces from becoming self-proclaimed, strategically important areas in some provinces were deliberately placed under the jurisdiction of other provinces.

Most of Shaanxi surrendered, and at the beginning of September in the first year of Hongwu, contact with Lanzhou had already started here, hoping that the same can be done without bloodshed.

Lanzhou is the gateway to the Northwest.

As long as Lanzhou can be won, it is like winning Xingyuan in the south, that is, "Hanzhong", you can attack if you advance, and you can defend when you retreat.

Unexpectedly, Lanzhou has not yet been captured, but in the south, Xingyuan, who was originally in the hands of Shuxia, has surrendered.

Chang Yuchun seized the opportunity to go south decisively before Xia Guo strengthened the defense of the Shu Road, and finally pacified the middle of Shu ahead of schedule.

Let's talk about Shaanxi.

After Tang He took over the military affairs of Shaanxi, he was not idle either.

He doesn't need to worry too much about the south, it's just a large army supply road, and Chang Yuchun himself arranges it in an orderly manner, so Tang He continued his previous westward strategy, and at the beginning of November, he successfully persuaded the Lanzhou defender, the former Taiwei Yuan Shilahan and Pingzhang Hezhu returned.

Among them, He Zhu, who is a Han Chinese, played a big role.

Then, there is a relatively long lobbying process.

When the Ming army entered Lanzhou, they sent envoys to Xining Road, Yongchang Road, Ningxia Road, Ganzhou Road, Suzhou Road, Shazhou Road, and Yiji Nai Road in the neighboring Gansu Province.

The Yuan Dynasty has already perished, and Emperor Zhengzheng was taken captive to Jinling. Seeing that the Ming army was so elite, the attitudes of the various military towns in Gansu were not so firm.At least, the envoys sent by the Ming army to each route were well received this time, unlike in the past, it was inevitable that the envoys would be killed.

However, an attitude is an attitude, and it is not that easy to make people surrender.

The turning point of the matter was at the beginning of the twelfth lunar month last year, when the news came that Chang Yuchun had to make an emergency landing in Chongqing. Xining, the nearest city to Lanzhou, first gave the most sincere attitude.

In the former Yuan Dynasty, Youcheng Duoer of Gansu Province failed to lead more than [-] people and took the initiative to accept the adaptation of the Ming army.Later, envoys were sent to the farther military towns of Suzhou Road and Shazhou Road to present soup and gifts in an attempt to make friends and further discuss the terms of submission.

Then come to the present moment.

On Xiliang's side, Tang He sent Fei Ju, the commander of Yongxingwei, to lead an army of [-] troops, directly approaching the city, and took it down half-talked and half-pressed.After taking Xiliang, the Ming army began to flow in continuously, and gradually increased to as many as [-], including [-] cavalry, and there were also a large number of mules and horses, which could be used by the entire army.

Different from the prosperous Central Plains, the desolate Northwest Frontier, the mobilization of [-] troops, and a large number of attached luggage, it is impossible not to leak any news.

However, many local military towns in various parts of Gansu knew about the arrival of the Ming army in Xiliang, but... the specific situation is not very clear.However, the feeling that the wind and rain are about to come makes the whole Hexi Corridor feel a little jittery.Even the ministries of Ningxia Road, which had been relatively passive before, recently sent over a thousand cattle and sheep, saying it was a reward for the army.

The cattle and sheep were collected and sent away.

In the barracks in the south of Xiliang City.

Lu Zhongheng arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army in a hurry, and after a notification, he entered the door. He was studying Tang He, who was studying a sand table with the generals. If you still want to run around, remember this baton first, if you fail after the battle, you will be punished for both crimes."

Lu Zhongheng was not afraid in his heart, but he clasped his fists and confessed to Tang He.

Then come to the sand table.

Around the sand table, in addition to Tang He, there were Guo Xing, Fei Ju, Guo Ying and other commanders who were also the governor of Lu Zhongheng.

Among them, Fei Ju brought Yongxing Wei all the way south with Tanghe after the war started the year before last.

Yongxingwei and Tianxingwei were originally in the south and north of Taihu Lake, led by Geng Bingwen and Wu Liang respectively, like two gates, firmly locking Zhang Shicheng's westward road.

Wu Liang has now been reduced to the vice-envoy of Yinghai from the third rank, and Tianxingwei has been transferred to Wu Zhen, the younger brother of the Wu family brothers. He is now the Zhenhaiwei in the core three guards of the navy, and he can be regarded as a fat water that does not flow to outsiders.

Geng Bingwen left Yongxingwei earlier and followed Xu Da to the north.

After that, I went around and around, and I am currently in Chang'an.

Geng Bingwen was good at defense, and it was he who lived in Chang'an that Tang He dared to come to Hexi quietly.

Besides, the Guo brothers, as His Majesty's in-laws, were also transferred from Dadu after Chang Yuchun went south to supplement the lack of troops in Shaanxi.

within the tent.

When Lu Zhongheng came to the sand table, Tang He continued directly without repeating: "...According to investigations, the former Yuanqi King Duo'er who was stationed in Baihai only had 3 troops, of which only [-] were elite. Thousands of people press on, even if it is impossible to capture the Duoerzhiban alive, as long as they are defeated and driven out of the White Sea, they can not only complete the strategy of "killing the chickens to warn the monkeys" of the master, but also get a large number of cattle and sheep from the Duoerjiban. What do you guys think about the consumption of our army?"

Lu Zhongheng stood opposite Tang He, looking at the clear sand table in front of him.

The Baihai mentioned by Tang He is located [-] miles north of Xiliang City, and it is still under the jurisdiction of Yongchang Road. The Baihai is nearly a hundred miles in diameter and consists of two lakes on the left and right. At present, it is under the command of Duo Erji Ban, the former Yuanqi King.

Things have been arranged here, and everyone understands that Tang He has made up his mind.

However, Guo Xing, the governor, still said: "General, I'm afraid Duo'er has already known about our arrival in Xiliang. From Xiliang to Baihai, we marched for three hundred miles. I'm afraid that we will arrive here. It just so happens." Let King Naqi wait for work at ease."

When the elder brother spoke, Guo Xing thought for a while, and joined in: "General, my lord told us to kill chickens to make an example of monkeys. Now... I'm afraid it's killing monkeys to make an example of chickens?"

"My lord also said to let me do things cheaply," Tang He shook his head, and said, "This killing of chickens to scare monkeys should not be too rigid. If we kill a chicken to a monkey, the monkey will be afraid, but if we kill a chicken to a wolf The chicken will only arouse the fierceness of the wolf. In Hexi at present, the most disrespectful to our Daming is Duo Erji Ban, relying on his own superiority and elite support, he wants to separate one side. How can this be done? .We knocked out the wolf, and the other chickens and monkeys were also terrified."

Lu Zhongheng listened to some people's discussion, and said at this time: "General, Duo'er's squad says that there are no more than 3 elites, but the grassland tribes, if there is an emergency, they can fight on horseback... We [-] Ten thousand people is still a little less.”

Fei Ju followed suit: "Since all the ministries in Hexi have the intention to submit, general, why don't you invite all the ministries to send troops together? room?"

"I've thought about it before," Tang He said, "but those chickens and monkeys, can you be sure that their hearts are towards me, Da Ming? If you send troops openly, you will secretly link up with that duo'er squad, and cooperate with each other from the inside out." Next, don’t my [-] soldiers fall into danger? Now, if we don’t inform everyone, everyone in Hexi will be in danger, and we should be more secure.”

After Tang He said this, all the generals in the account were speechless for a moment.

Looking around, Tang He said: "If you have no other doubts, the matter is settled?"

Lu Zhongheng hesitated for a while, and said again: "General, if the [-] troops press up, they will definitely be discovered in advance. Why don't we adopt the strategy of surprise attack on Kaiping, gather all the mules and horses with [-] cavalry, and quickly attack Baihai?"

Tang He shook his head: "According to the lord's letter... our strategic goals are different this time. The surprise attack on Kaiping in Dadu was more to frighten the grasslands. Thirty thousand elites flew by, and it was also to prevent Mobei from settling in Kaiping again." Gather. At the moment, we not only need to defeat Duo'erzhi Squad, but also need his cattle and sheep to supplement the consumption of the army, which requires the whole army to crush, defeat, drive, and plunder!"

As Tang He spoke, he gestured to the sand table in front of him: "Let's fight from south to north, and we don't expect any surprise attack. We just used an army of [-] to defeat that group and drive them into the Mobei desert, and robbed their cattle and sheep. Occupying the Fertile White Sea will become the strategic goal of our army, and at that time, the chickens and monkeys around will have no choice but to honestly submit to our Daming."

After Tang He finished speaking this time, none of the generals raised any objections.

Then discuss the specific strategy of advancing troops.

However, while talking with the generals, Tang He sighed inwardly.

Compared to Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, or even Feng Sheng and Liao Yongzhong, his... this prestige in this army... is really a bit aggrieved.

Tang He also regretted it.

Who would have thought of today?
When I wrote a letter to invite a fellow from my hometown to join the army with me, I didn't expect that in just a few years, the other party became my coach. Tang He was always a little unbalanced in his heart, so that when he was drunk, he said that The words of "like sitting on the roof, you can go left or right", this matter is not only remembered by the lord, but also many people in the army know it.

The result is now.

As the commander-in-chief of an army, the people below knew what he was going to do, but they didn't necessarily object to what he was going to do, but...it was always inevitable to express their attitude.

Soup and discord attitude with him!

After all, they are all old in war. If there is no other reason, why would they ask some stupid questions that should not be said by generals like them?

Tang He is not a person who doesn't know how to advance or retreat. When the battles that should be fought are over and the class master returns to the court, no matter what title he can get, he feels that he should be smarter and retreat early and bravely, so as not to repeat the mistakes of those people in the previous court. The fate of the founding heroes being "cooked by cunning rabbits and dead lackeys".

(End of this chapter)