The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 401 The Speculative Fang Guoan
Ma Degong then made some arrangements for his subordinate officers according to his plan.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other in surprise, they all had the same thought in their hearts, 3 people, are they so abandoned?
"My lord, I'm afraid to act like this..." Tian Xiong hesitated to speak, and then said, "Besides, this method is also very risky..."

"Doing big things doesn't stick to small details. How can you not be risky when you are dying?" Ma Degong snorted coldly, "Based on what I know about that guy, he will probably come.

"Don't talk too much, just follow my orders!"

Several officers could only say, "Follow the order!" They went out of their tents and left.

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"Stop, stop!" Fang Guoan yelled at the babbling actors on the stage, then grabbed Fang Guotai and said, "Are you serious?"

"Brother, I went to the Ministry of War to read the pond newspaper." Fang Guotai said hastily, "He said that the day before yesterday, the Fujian navy entered the Hangzhou Bay, smashed the Gaha's troops, and burned the barracks in Qingyuan Li, a prisoner.

"Zhang Huangyan also reported that he had received a truce from the captives yesterday. He was suspicious, so he sent his generals out of the city to test it out. He didn't want to attack Ma Degong's camp and captured three thousand bandits. The enemy camp was empty.

"Other local officials near Xianghu Lake saw tens of thousands of bandit soldiers passing by, with weapons and armor thrown everywhere along the way, but only a small amount of food and grass accompanied them.

"Looking at the evidence from these few tests, Ma Degong must have lost the supply of food and grass in Hangzhou, so he had to abandon Xiaoshan to survive."

"God help me too!" Fang Guoan excitedly grabbed his outer shirt and ran out.

Fang Guotai followed closely behind, wondering: "Brother, where are you going?"

"Enter the palace!" Fang Guoan ran out of the mansion gate in a hurry, straddled his horse and swung his whip before leaving.

Since the last time his main force was ambushed and defeated by Ma Degong, his prestige in Zhejiang has been greatly reduced.Now that Jianlu soldiers are suppressing the border, Qian Sule and others in the court have been suggesting that King Lu go to supervise the country and return to the feudal domain, and enshrine Taizheng as Zhengshuo.

Others didn't care much about King Lu's return to the vassal, but Fang Guoan had successively surrendered to the captives, surrendered to the Thai dynasty, and then turned his back on the Tianxing Mansion to welcome the King of Lu to supervise the country. Chao, I am afraid that his life will not be easy.

He was born as a rogue in the market, and he relied on luck and speculation all the way to get to the top, so he knows the importance of speculation best.Now that the horse is in danger, it is a good opportunity for speculation.

He thought in his mind that since Ma Degong had run out of food and grass, judging from the situation in Xiaoshan and Xianghu, the morale of his men and horses had collapsed.

If it takes a few more days to wait for the army to riot or mutiny, it will be a waste.If he arrives with his troops just when there is chaos in the Ma Degong Department, he can take the opportunity to cover up the killing with his troops and take down the heads of [-] Qing troops without any effort.

With such a great contribution to the imperial conquest of the country, even if he returned to the Taizheng Dynasty as a minister, it would be difficult for the officials to talk about his previous deeds such as surrendering to the captives and supporting the Lu Fan.

When he had just rushed outside the Lu Palace, he encountered an urgent report from the Ministry of War.He stopped the messenger to inquire, and learned that the captives went to Yiqiao, Lishan and other places to grab food this morning. The inspectors, Xiangyong, Minzhuang and others rose up to resist and defeated the enemy army, capturing and killing 5000 people in total.

Fang Guoan was even more anxious when he heard the words. He didn't expect that the captives' army had become so distracted that the inspection department and the township brave could defeat them. You have to hold on, don't wait until I arrive before collapsing!

He then had an audience with the King of Lu, and without a word, he wanted to call in soldiers to suppress Ma Degong again.

Although Fang Guoan was defeated in the previous battle, he was still the Generalissimo of Lu Fan, and all the people and horses in Zhejiang were controlled by him, and he had tens of thousands of direct descendants.

Therefore, the king of Lu was just going through the motions, and Zhu Yihai had no choice but to immediately issue an order, ordering the Duke of Yue, Fang Guoan, to take an overview of the matter of expelling the captives, and immediately lead the army northward.

It should be said that although Fang Guoan intends to "find the leak", he is also very cautious. He is worried that he will not be able to withstand the counterattack of the dying Qing army, so he wants to take Lu Wang's [-] forbidden troops and Zhang Huangyan's Xiaoshan defenders with him.

And he was afraid that Zhang Huangyan would steal the credit, so he ordered Xiaoshan's defenders to go south to Shaoxing to join him, so no matter who captured the enemy's head, the credit would be credited to him as the commander.

Because the vicinity of Shaoxing had been preparing for battle against the enemy, the next morning they assembled the army and supplies, and left the city with Fang Guoan to go north. In the evening, they met Zhang Huangyan's troops again.

Then nearly [-] troops turned westward along the south bank of Xianghu Lake, and followed Ma Degong's "defeated army" and left.Along the way, news came that the defenders from all over the country had raided and captured the prisoners. Fang Guoan counted that the number of heads left for him was getting less and less, and he urged his subordinates to speed up the march a hundred times a day.

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Qingshanling is located between Xiaoshan and Tonglu, hundreds of miles away from the two places.

Fang Guoan glanced at the scorching sun in the sky, then looked back at the soldiers behind him whose helmets were crooked due to the hasty march, waved his hands and shouted, "Hurry up!"

Zhang Huangyan chased after Fang Guoan on his horse, cupped his hands and said: "General, we have reached the Qingshan Mountain ahead, we must guard against the bandit army's ambush. You should send scouts to explore before leaving."

"You are too careful. In the past two days, tens of thousands of thieves and soldiers have been ambushed, and Ma Degong is already a desperate dog. How can he care about ambush?" Fang Guoan shook off the sweat on his face, and squinted, "Pass You insisted on exploring Lingqiao and Shiniu Mountain, but you didn't see half of the captives, so you wasted a lot of time."

He pointed to the mountain in front again, "I've only heard of high and low, this post road is on the ridge, where can Ma Degong set up an ambush?

"Besides, the captive army is short of food. I'm afraid I'm so hungry these days that I can't even pick up a knife. I'm looking forward to fighting with them soon!"

"but……"

Zhang Huangyan wanted to say something more, but Fang Guoan reined in his horse and shouted: "Catch up with the captives within three days, and everyone will be rewarded with five taels of silver!"

His words were like a shot of chicken blood, and the soldiers immediately quickened their pace excitedly, but the formation became even more chaotic.

When the front team of the Zhejiang Army had just passed the highest point of Qingshanling, they suddenly saw a man dressed as a woodcutter standing in the middle of the road in front of them, and an officer was about to come forward to ask questions, when they suddenly heard a burst of gunfire from all around.

Immediately, thousands of people who looked like mountain people and hunters rushed out nearby, but all of them were holding bows and guns.

The "woodcutter" pulled out his single sword behind him and pointed forward, immediately there was a loud bang, and arrows rained down like rain.Among these "mountain people", there were still dozens of tiger squatting cannons. Before the forward of the Zhejiang Army could react, the gunpowder smoke was rolled up and the cannons sounded again and again.

At the same time, at the foot of the mountain, a large number of unidentified people quickly climbed up the mountain under the cover of a large shield.

Fang Guoan turned pale with shock, and hurriedly ordered, "There is an ambush, fight back!"

However, the formation of the Zhe army was chaotic due to rushing, and it took a long time to form a battle formation. Although it was a condescending and favorable terrain, there were only sparse bows and blunderbusses shooting towards the hillside.

The enemy troops who attacked were extremely fierce. Even if some were shot and rolled down the mountain, the rest immediately took over the large shield and continued upward.

The Qingshan Mountains were not high at all, and when the Zhejiang Army finally recovered from the chaos, the enemy had already climbed to the upper ridge.

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