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Chapter 293
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In the early morning of the tenth day of March, Zuo Liangyu was dispatched for the second time. In the afternoon of the same day, the Mangui iron cavalry who arrived in Xi'an the day before also went out again under the order of Master Zhang, via Fufeng, Siyang (now Qianyang) and Fang Shanyuan rushed to Tianshui to set up defenses, blocking the way for the defeated army to advance westward into the hinterland of Shaanxi-Gansu-this is also a crucial part of the encirclement of Young Master Zhang, and no mistakes are allowed, but fortunately, the combat effectiveness of the Mangui iron cavalry has always been excellent. Let Young Master Zhang be very relieved, so there is no need for Young Master Zhang to worry about the performance of the soldiers and horses on the battlefield. The only thing that makes Young Master Zhang a headache is whether Sun Chengzong can guarantee the logistics supply of the Mangui Army in Shaanxi, where rogue bandits are rampant. up.

"Zhang Butang, don't worry, this old man has already urgently ordered Pingliang Mansion six hundred miles away this morning, and asked the Pingliang defenders to immediately transport all the grain stored in the city to Tianshui." Sun Chengzong also knew the importance of logistics issues to the Mangui Army, He made a promise: "There is also the second batch of grain and grass for General Mangui and the grain and grass to make up for Pingliang Mansion. The old man has already asked the Shaanxi-Gansu Army to prepare for loading and sending them to Pingliang Mansion overnight, and then passed through Shuiluocheng and Longzhou. Chengguan to Tianshui, although this road is remote and long, it is better than safety. At the same time, people who need to transport food and grass don’t have to worry about it. Shaanxi and Gansu have been suffering from drought for years, and hungry people are everywhere. As long as they are provided with food and food, how many people are required to keep it How much, it will definitely not put General Mangui in danger of running out of food for half a day."

"I hope so." Young Master Zhang looked at the map for a long time and pondered for a long time, finally nodded, relieved a little, and said: "Master Ge, the army must be enough to ensure safety, and don't worry about the excessive consumption of the road. Mr. Ge You also know that our military expenditure this year is very sufficient. The younger generation has asked the imperial court to spend 150 million taels of silver to purchase grain from the southern grain-producing areas and transport it to Shaanxi and Gansu, so you don’t have to worry at all, even if you consume five catties of grain on the way It is also worth sending a catty of grain to the front line in Tianshui, as long as there is enough food for the front line." Sun Chengzong lamented that Master Zhang was rich and powerful and Wei Zhongxian was eccentric, so he quickly agreed and made a promise.

After sending away the Mangui army, Young Master Zhang asked Shi Kefa to write an order to the Shaanxi inspector Peng Haogu, Zhifu Gu Zhidao, Shizhu commander Qin Liangyu, and Hanzhong general Zhao Guangyuan who were in Hanzhong, ordering them to give up Dasanguan. He retreated to Fengxian County with the two natural dangers of the monk, and strengthened the defenses at critical passes in Hanzhong, such as Yangping Pass and Baocheng, to give way to the main force of the rebels to flee into the Hanzhong Mountains, and strive to wipe out the rebels in the Qinling Mountains—because The order to abandon the two famous natural barriers of Dasan Pass and Monk Yuan is too shocking, and Master Zhang asked Shi Kefa to emphasize in the order that Han, Chinese and military officials should not care about the gains and losses of each pass, and lure the thieves into a place where there is no food. The Qinling Mountains are the top priority!At the same time, at the end of the order, Young Master Zhang also told the Hanzhong army in an extremely insidious manner to prepare them for a fierce and bloody battle. They must persist until he personally led the main force from Shaanxi and Gansu to enter Hanzhong from Dasan Pass, completed the north-south pincer attack and then wiped out the rebels. The main strategy and tactics.

"Hehe, Master, students dare to bet." After reading the order written by Shi Kefa, Song Xiance couldn't help but smirk, "After this order is sent to Hanzhong, Marshal Qin and other Hanzhong generals will definitely scold their mothers. They The total strength of the army is only 8000 people, which is not too many. It is simply a matter of giving up the two natural dangers that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, Dasan Pass and Monk Yuan, and retreating to the southern end of the Qinling Mountains with complex roads and many trails. If you run, you want the horse not to eat grass."

"Just scold." Young Master Zhang is never afraid of scolding. He sneered and said, "The white soldiers are better. I don't feel relieved at all about those third-rate troops in Hanzhong. If I don't lie to them, let them take me The news that they were going to enter Hanzhong from Ziwu Valley to join the war leaked out, and the thieves like Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai dared not enter Hanzhong. The price to be paid for extermination is much greater."

Time is running out, if Young Master Zhang's orders are sent to Hanzhong from the Meridian Road where the road conditions are safe, and then sent to Dasan Pass and the monk's original front line, there is a high probability that the fighter will miss the opportunity, and the carrier pigeons cannot carry too many orders. Under such circumstances, Young Master Zhang had no choice but to offer a huge reward to select a cavalry squad from the Shaanxi-Gansu Army to escort the messenger through Baoji County where the thieves were entrenched and directly send the order to Dashan Pass.Fortunately, after sacrificing more than half of the cavalry, Master Zhang's order was finally sent to Dashan Pass, and also to Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin, who had already rushed to Dashan Pass to supervise the battle. Indeed, Qin Liangyu was so angry that he slapped the table and scolded his mother.

"The little bastard surnamed Zhang is crazy!" Qin Liangyu almost wanted to tear Master Zhang's order into pieces, and roared: "Abandon Dashanguan and Monk Yuan, does he know how to fight?! The famous Song Dynasty general Wu Jie hundreds of years ago As I said, Monk Yuan is the most important point, and from the south of the original point, the road into Sichuan will be scattered; if you lose this point, there will be no Shu! If you don’t hold on to these two key points, the thieves will rush into the Qinling Mountains, and my mother will go there to find so many troops. To guard such a complicated path?"

"Mother, don't pay attention to Zhang Haogu's reckless orders!" Ma Xianglin, the eldest son of Qin Liangyu, who hurried back from Monk Yuan to listen to the order, also roared angrily: "It's easy for him to give up these two key points. If the thieves control these two natural dangers , our already small force has to be divided into countless groups to guard the roads, how can we resist the army of hundreds of thousands of rebels? Such rebellious orders cannot be listened to, and we cannot take risks with our precious troops and the people of Hanzhong and Sichuan !"

"Marshal Qin, could this order be a forged order by the rebels?" Hanzhong General Zhao Guangyuan looked suspiciously at the Shaanxi-Gansu cavalry and messengers who came to deliver the letter, and said doubtfully: "Zhang Butang is proficient in military affairs. How could the recognized No. [-] God of War use such a stupid trick? Could it be that the rebels were worried that they would not be able to take down Dasan Pass and Monk Yuan, so they sent people pretending to be officers and soldiers, and sent forged official documents to make us give up these two natural dangers? "Speaking, Zhao Guangyuan also pointed to the Shaanxi-Gansu soldiers who delivered the letter and ordered: "You guys, take out the waist badge and let me check it again."

"General Zhao, you are wronged. We are really sent by the Lord." Several Shaanxi-Gansu cavalry shouted their innocence, and hurriedly took out their badges and road guides for Zhao Guangyuan to check.And Zhao Guangyuan took these identity certificates and looked left and right for a long time, but he still didn't see the slightest trace of forgery—nonsense, these things are true!But Zhao Guangyuan still couldn't believe what he said, so he picked up Young Master Zhang's official document to check the official seal, and muttered: "The secret record is true, and the great seal... the great seal seems to be true too, but Zhang Butang has just taken office. What is his big seal like, none of us know..."

"That's right, none of us have seen Zhang Haogu's seal, could this really be forged by thieves?" Reminded by Zhao Guangyuan, Qin Liangyu also had this question.Fortunately, the messenger sent by Young Master Zhang suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "By the way, Marshal Qin, the Lord of the Ministry is also afraid that you may worry that this official document is fake, so the Lord wants to bring you another message. Once you hear it, you'll know the truth."

"What message?" Qin Liangyu asked hastily.The messenger scratched his head and said, "I can't figure out the meaning of the message—Master Butang just asked me to tell you that Mr. Butang can swear to God that when he was in Songjiang Mansion, he really Didn't see anything!"

"Master Butang swears that he didn't see anything in Songjiang Mansion? What do you mean?" Zhao Guangyuan was baffled, and his head was confused.Ma Xiangling, who had been standing behind Qin Liangyu all the time, blushed and quickly lowered her pretty face, her heart was beating wildly, she was ashamed and angry, and a little disappointed.But Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin's mother and son were all discouraged, Qin Liangyu said helplessly: "Yes, this order must be true, General Zhao, let's make preparations, abandon Dashan Pass and Monk Yuan, and retreat to Feng County."

"Marshal Qin, are you really planning to give up Dasan Pass and Monk Yuan?" Zhao Guangyuan asked dumbfounded.Qin Liangyu said dejectedly: "What can we do if we don't give up? Boy Zhang Haogu has given orders. He is now the governor of the five provinces and our boss. As officials of the court, we can't disobey orders, right?" Zhao Guangyuan asked again. After staying for a long time, he finally had no choice but to agree in dejection, and went down to make preparations according to the order.

"Sister-in-law, this time is a good opportunity." The only person who was happier was Zhang Fengyi, who got along well with my sister-in-law, quietly took Ma Xianglin's hand and said in a low voice: "Xiangling is already 21, I understand her thoughts, this time she must If you want to do her business, if you delay it any longer, she will be an old girl, and if you have a chance some other day, you must tell your mother-in-law about it."

"Wait for a chance." Ma Xianglin was also very worried about his sister's marriage, and replied in a low voice: "Now that the army of rebels is overwhelming, we have to give up the only natural barrier that can be effectively defended. If the rebels take the opportunity to enter the Qinling Mountains, We have a battle to fight, and my mother is busy with military affairs, so don't bother her, wait until the battle is over."

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One day later, Qin Liangyu, who was loyal to the Ming court, led the Baigan soldiers and the Hanzhong army to voluntarily abandon Dasanguan and Heshangyuan. After this situation, I was so shocked that I couldn't believe my ears at all.Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, the two thieves, repeatedly questioned the scouts of the rebels, "Are you reading it wrong? Did the officers and soldiers in Hanzhong really voluntarily abandon Monk Yuan and Dashanguan? Really or fake, such a good strategy Importantly, how could the dog officials in Hanzhong be willing to give up? Have you investigated clearly? Are there any officers and soldiers ambushing in Dashan Pass and Monk Yuanshang?"

"King Chuang and King Cao Tian, ​​please don't worry, the younger ones have checked carefully, and the officers and soldiers have indeed withdrawn." The scout of the rebellion happily replied: "The younger ones even ventured into the Dashan Pass and boarded the monk. Yuan, in Dasan Pass, there is still monk Yuanshang, indeed there is not a single dog officer!"

"Really?" Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai waited for the big and small thieves to look at each other, and they refused to believe that such a big pie would fall from the sky, and it was a meat pie with a piece of fat and juicy bacon sandwiched inside!In the end, the old bandit Wang himself yelled, which reminded the bandits who suspected that they were in a dream, "What are you doing in a daze? Take the army over there and take a look with your own eyes, and you'll know?"

"Yes, go and see for yourself!" All the bandits woke up like they had just woken up from a dream, and hurriedly yelled and assembled their troops, and immediately rushed to Dashan Pass to find out what happened.Luo Rucai was more cautious. In order to prevent the Ming army from laying an ambush in an empty city, he specially asked all the bandits to gather cavalry as the forward in case of emergency, and they can run even if they encounter any danger.After a while, a large number of rebel troops assembled. Gao Yingxiang gave an order, and the troops crossed the dry and shallow Weishui River, passed through Yimen Town, followed the valley road and went straight to the upper reaches of the Qingjiang River, and then went straight to the Erli Post after crossing Shencha. To the surprise of the leader of the rebellion, Erliyi, the frontier warning post of the Ming army in Hanzhong, which is also very important, was really empty, and there were no houses or stables in sight.When going further south, the monk Yuanshang, who was stationed heavily by the Ming army in Hanzhong and formed horns with the defenders of Dasan Pass, also disappeared from the Ming army camp. The military materials used clearly proved that the Ming army retreated very hastily this time, and when they arrived at Dashan Pass, the gate of Dashan Pass was opened wide, and scouts could be seen everywhere in the pass to snatch the abandoned Ming army. Abandoned military supplies, the south of Guancheng is empty, only the traces of horseshoe ruts left by the retreat of the Ming army everywhere.

"God help me too!" Overjoyed Gao Yingxiang raised his arms and cheered, and laughed loudly: "With these two natural dangers, I can attack when I advance, and I can defend when I retreat, and I can remain invincible!"

"King Chuang, don't be dumbfounded!" Several thieves shouted with their eyes shining, "Go to Hanzhong and Sichuan, there is no Zhang Xiaogouguan, there is only endless food, endless money and sleep. Endless beauties! As long as we guard Dashan Pass and Monk Yuan, we can do whatever we want in Sichuan and Hanzhong!"

"Trap! There must be a trap in the south!" At this moment, Fan Wencheng, who had always been suspicious, suddenly came to his senses, jumping up and down and shouting: "My lords, you must not be fooled! Zhang Haogu, the little mad dog, is five The governor of the province, who is in charge of Shaanxi and Hanzhong at the same time, suddenly ordered the Hanzhong army to abandon Dasan Pass and He Shangyuan, clearly to lure you to go south, so that he can set up an ambush in the Qinling Mountains and annihilate you all!"

Fan Wencheng's words calmed down Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, the old treacherous thieves. After careful calculation, the two thieves Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai immediately realized that the behavior of the Ming army this time was indeed very strange. When the rebel army did not go south to attack the city desperately, why did the white-armed soldiers with extremely strong combat effectiveness give up the two strategic points of Dasan Pass and Monk Yuan for no reason?Moreover, after going south from Dasan Pass, you have to pass through a rather large Qinling mountainous area. Although the roads in this mountainous area are numerous and complicated, it is conducive to interspersed and detours, and guerrilla warfare with officers and soldiers, but where to find food supplies in this kind of place? go?Once we fall into Young Master Zhang's trap and are trapped in this mountainous area, won't we all starve to death?After repeated calculations, Luo Rucai was the first to nod and said: "Mr. Fan is right. We can't take the risk of going south casually. Once we are surrounded by Officer Zhang Xiaogou, we will be in big trouble."

"You can't take risks casually, but it's okay. Officer Zhang Xiaogou probably has problems with reinforcements and food. We haven't been chasing him hard these days. We still have a little time." Gao Yingxiang nodded thoughtfully, and made another one that he regretted for the rest of his life. He decided, "Let's do this. Our troops will first move to Dashan Pass and Monk Yuan, first control these two natural hazards, and then send more scouts to investigate and contact, and find out Zhang Xiaogou's intentions before making a decision."

"If you do this, the precious opportunity to enter the hinterland of Shaanxi will definitely be wasted. Isn't it too dangerous?" Fan Wencheng pondered secretly, but after careful calculation, Fan Wencheng thought that he would not be able to convince the gangsters to give up Dasan Pass and the monk The original natural danger, immediately rushed into the hinterland of Shaanxi - there is no way, Sichuan and Hanzhong are much richer than Shaanxi, and now the army of thieves is holding the door to Sichuan, and if they are asked to give up this dangerous door that can enter Hanzhong, Sichuan, and make a lot of money Going to the hinterland of Shaanxi, where the hungry people are everywhere, is tantamount to asking them to throw watermelons and pick sesame seeds. Even Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai, the most intelligent among the thieves, would definitely not agree.

"There is no other way, let's take a gamble first." After giving up the plan to persuade Gao Yingxiang to change his strategy, Fan Wencheng could only comfort himself in his heart, "If it is really impossible, let these barbarians invade Sichuan and Hanzhong, After passing the Dashan Pass, the mountains in the Qinling Mountains are high and densely forested, and the trails are numerous and extremely complicated. It is not so easy for Zhang Xiaomao to completely block the rebels in the Qinling Mountains. And as long as these barbarians and rebels enter the Hanzhong Basin Or in the Sichuan Plain, it will not be so easy for the barbarian court to completely exterminate them, and my goal of buying time for the masters to breathe can also be achieved."

(End of this chapter)