The mule battalion lined up in the mountains, observing from a high position the peasant army crossing the river in large numbers.
He looked straight into Wei Qian'er's eyes, pointed to the other side and shook his hands: "General, is this a trap for the invaders?"
Even if they, the Shaanxi people who have been on the border for generations, rebelled, if the Tatars were allowed to invade, they would immediately turn around and help the border troops fight against the Tatars.
"Look at your ignorant look. Can you allow the border troops to escort the invaders?"
Cao Yao likes to quarrel with Wei Qian'er, and now he can use his experience of traveling around. He raises his arm and introduces several leaders: "I don't know which leader is on the other side. The Yiding troops who surrendered and the border troops guarding the Great Wall are all
Let him get it."
Liu Chengzong asked: "How do you tell that they are guarding the Great Wall? I see that their clothes and armor are no different from ours."
"Looking at the formation, there are no requirements for the formation of soldiers outside, but it is different on the Great Wall. I guarded two border walls in Datong."
The two side walls Cao Yao mentioned were the Great Wall, and the area between the two Great Walls was the military buffer zone of the Ming Dynasty.
"In order to march on the border wall, they usually ride five horses abreast and march ten men abreast. Our soldiers outside do not have such requirements."
After that, Cao Yao pointed to the border troops marching on the other side behind the Mongolian Yiding, carrying rifles, blunderbuss, and three-eyed muskets: "They must be the border troops of the Great Wall."
Liu Chengzong nodded slowly, then waved his hand and said to everyone: "Pull the team a little eastward. There are pack cannons on the horses behind. Don't hit us."
People on the other side of the river also have horses carrying cannons.
In fact, compared to the peasant army on the other side of the river, Liu Chengzong paid more attention to the officers and soldiers who came out of Yonghe Pass to form formations.
Not every officer is as brave as Lu Cheng.
For example, the commander-in-chief Yongheguan led more than 300 people out in a procession. Halfway through, he discovered that there were a huge number of peasant soldiers and ordered him to stand still and observe the situation.
After standing for a while, the Yiding soldiers from the Jiangjun army on the other side came out from the mountain road wearing strong armor.
The general who led the army was very obedient and didn't say anything when he saw the situation. He turned around, waved a small flag, and led the troops back to the customs.
Liu Chengzong could see clearly on the mountain, and that was right.
People cannot just think about getting promoted and getting rich.
Think about your parents, wife and children, and then think about your monthly rations and monthly salary.
Don't even stand in formation for field battles. Just stand on the city wall, even if it's worthy of the emperor's kindness for not paying military pay for many years.
"Now it depends on whether they are our enemies or friends. Listen carefully. We will soon see that the situation is not good. Let's form a team from the east and go down the mountain. Don't go to the west. If they want to go up the mountain, they have to go around from the west and they can't disperse." p>
The three sentry commanders all responded solemnly, turned around and conveyed the order to their respective captains, and the teams were listed according to the location of the central army.
Just as the mule battalion was in formation, the peasant army on the other side discovered that the official army had returned to Guancheng, and the people burst into laughter.
There were even two hungry people in ragged clothes who had crossed the river and deliberately ran to a place not far from Guancheng, took off their pants and swayed from side to side.
Liu Chengzong frowned and smiled ugly: "Are those two guys peeing on the defenders?"
This is too much.
Even Cao Yao laughed and shook his head: "It's too difficult to be a soldier these days. You either have to be a brave dead man like a guerrilla, or you are as cowardly as this boss, and you can barely ride on your head.
...Why don’t you use artillery fire? I can’t bear it anyway.”
"You have to endure it if you can't bear it. There are thousands of people, and there are thousands of soldiers in armor alone. If you can't bear it, you will die."
Liu Chengzong shook his head, suddenly raised his arm and pointed out, "Look at the other side, there are horse soldiers coming."
Judging from the movement, they should have been found on the mountain.
However, the peasant army did not regard them as enemies and formed formations in the mountains as Liu Chengzong imagined. Instead, they had horse soldiers quickly crossing the river from the pontoon bridge and sending orders to people to avoid the mountains.
Then the cavalry soldier approached cautiously and shouted: "Is this General Liu in Maoshang?"
General Liu?
Liu Chengzong was about to step forward to answer when he was stopped by Cao Yao: "Be careful of fraud."
Later, Cao Yao stepped forward and looked down, without showing his head, and just asked: "Which General Liu?"
"General Liu from Yan'an Prefecture!"
Cao Yao looked back at him, his meaning was obvious: I am looking for you.
He asked again: "What do you want from General Liu?"
Liu Chengzong frowned and looked toward the other side, his heart pounding.
Could it be that my father and brother were so powerful that they took advantage of his absence to recruit a group of border troops and Mongolian Yidin, and expanded the team tenfold to come to find him?
I feel like this is too fantasy.
And if he is a father or brother or an old acquaintance in Yan'an Mansion, he should send someone he knows here. He knows so many people in Yan'an Mansion, so he will not have no old acquaintances.
I heard the loud voice of the cavalry soldiers at the foot of the mountain saying: "Our leader's surname is Gao. He said that you owe him a meal and you haven't paid him back!"
Liu Chengzong really wanted to jump off the cliff and cover the cavalry soldier's mouth.
Without even looking back, he could feel the eyes of his subordinates looking over at him.
Cao Yao in front also turned around and stared with wide eyes, mouthing silently: "Is there such a thing?"
Liu Chengzong owed a meal to many people, but those people all died in the autumn.
There is only one person named Gao who is still alive, and he knows who it is.
If it was Gao Yingxiang, Liu Chengzong felt that he could probably guess why he was approached.
The rebels in Shaanxi are all holding together to keep warm, and Gao Yingxiang is no exception.
The cavalry soldiers at the foot of the mountain were still wondering why there was no sound from the mountain after finishing what the king said... Suddenly they heard a loud shout.
"He still owes me a copper beast to swallow the door knocker!"
There was no sound at the bottom of the mountain, but the clatter of horse hooves gradually faded away.
The cavalry soldiers took their horses and hid on a hillside where they could not be hit with bows, crossbows and muskets. Then they shouted: "The leader said, if you don't fight, wave the flag!"
After saying that, he jumped on the horse's butt and ran towards the pontoon.
The little guy was wiping his sweat while running, secretly glad that he really saved his life.
It sounded very friendly before, but suddenly it felt like we were not old friends, but more like neighbors.
Build an extra three feet of courtyard wall, move an extra three feet to dig field stakes, the kind of neighbor who has a grudge.
Riding a horse on the Yellow River pontoon bridge, looking forward.
On the West Bank Mountain, the banner of Chuangzi waved;
Looking back, on the east bank of the hills, a red flag is fluttering.
It seems that there is no more hatred.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the other side, Gao Yingxiang led several leaders down the mountain, galloped towards him like a whirlwind, and asked with a tense face: "It's Liu Chengzong, what did he say?"
"He said, he said the leader owed him a bronze beast to swallow the door knocker."
Gao Yingxiang was stunned for a moment, then he laughed out loud, raised the Guandao, shook it and said with a smile: "Ha, hahaha! This little lion really holds a grudge!"
After saying that, he put the knife on the ground and said with his hand: "I'll ask him again if he dares to come to the pontoon to see me!"
The cavalry soldiers had no choice but to return again to report the news.
The dirty monkey in the sky came over and said curiously: "Since when did King Chuang owe me a copper door knocker? Why don't you pay it back? No wonder they don't let you go."
"What the hell!" Gao Yingxiang said with a smile: "That was because I was released by the county magistrate, so I went back and knocked on his door at night. His little lion ate my head and rice. If I didn't beat him, I would be so angry.
Feeling comfortable?"
Not to mention Heavenly Monkey Liu Jiusi, even Bu Tian Mu, Huntian Monkey and others who came over from the side were stunned.
In their minds, the so-called owing a meal should be a beautiful story similar to a meal.
Why is it related to Guantoufan?
Bu Zhanni said in a daze: "He is so shameless, and he can eat even if others are decapitated!"
"It's not just about eating, forget it, I won't tell you this."
Gao Yingxiang waved his hand, recalling the scene of a fat boy who was studying and practicing martial arts, holding the stewed lamb hooves and snoring mutton noodles in the prison with a big bowl in his arms.
This thing cannot be described at all, and it will make these hungry ghosts starve to death.
Bu Zhanmu raised his eyes diagonally upward, thinking about what it would be like to eat rice without a head.
Even if Gao Yingxiang didn't say anything, he had already swallowed hard, lifted up his mail shirt, reached into his clothes and touched his dry belly, and said to himself: "No, I have to get a lamb to eat at night... eh
, Chuang Wang."
Bu Zhanni said: "I still don't understand. Even if we are old acquaintances, send someone to talk to each other. Then we can join forces and fight together. Why do we have to let him come over? Besides, will he come over?"
"Yes."
Gao Yingxiang said categorically. In fact, he hadn't seen him for many years. He was not sure whether he would come, but he still warned him: "I'll be here in a while. Don't worry about what we say. Don't interrupt me to hurt me."
It's a big deal, I came here just to join forces with him."
Huntian Monkey Zhang Mengjin said: "Why do we have to join forces with him?"
What else can I do? It’s useful!
Gao Yingxiang glanced at the Huntian Monkey: "The four of us join forces... I really don't know how many of you three, calculated as seven thousand, can annihilate a guerrilla general?"
Don't say Gao Yingxiang doesn't know, don't stick to the mud, the Sky Monkey and the Huntian Monkey don't know either.
Even if the number of people is clearly investigated, it is one number now and another number tomorrow. It may be more or less. Emperor Wu cannot explain this.
They all started the rebellion because of hunger, and relied on their strength and luck to survive one robbery after another. The same is true for their subordinates. If they don't become thieves, they will starve to death, so it is normal not to become thieves when they are not hungry.
"Not necessarily."
Bu Zhan Mu answered easily: "In an ambush, when the artillery and guns are unprepared, I will drive the three troops to fight. When they are exhausted, they will break into the king and then use the strong armor. It will not be difficult to win."
Treating hungry people as cannon fodder is a cruel and effective tactic.
"It's not difficult to win, even those who are about to die can use their lives, but it's difficult to make them continue to ambush."
Gao Yingxiang did not mean to ridicule, let alone look down on anyone, he just stated the facts.
Ambushes place higher demands on soldiers than regular battles.
If only 300 to 500 people were to fight by luck, it would be okay to say that 30% of the regular army and the peasants would take care of both of them, and they could try to intercept.
The more troops you can mobilize with your own side, the larger the enemy's target will be, and the larger the range of the battlefield covered by the scout Tangqi will be, the entire ambush encirclement will also expand accordingly.
If six or seven thousand people like them are to ambush, the encirclement must start to shrink at least sixty miles away, avoiding sight in all directions, not being in the enemy's sight, and holding on until the enemy reaches a suitable ambush location.
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There is no need to think about what happens after the war, this alone is enough to kill people.
"If you think about it again, Wang Daliang attacked Hanzhong, Zhou Dawang caused trouble in Wudu, Han Dynasty slaughtered Qingyang, and Zuo Guazi and Brother Wang all went to Hancheng."
Gao Yingxiang said: "Who can grab whatever they go, of course we and King Hengtian, quickly attack all the military forts on the side wall of Fugu, what will it do to the overall situation?"
"This time, we originally said that we would continue to attack the army fortress, but the news of Liu Chengzong's robbery of the post station reached the north, and we realized that without the express delivery shop of the post station, the connection between Shaanxi and Yansui Town was severed, and Yan'an Prefecture was empty on the map.
Like nothing."
Bu Zhanni rolled his eyes and nodded one after another. He understood: "Working with him will allow us to live for two more years. Is this what Chuang Wang means?"
"Yes, what's more, the official army in Shaanxi is powerful, and the imperial court will encircle and suppress it sooner or later. Lao Huihui was so powerful in Huanglong Mountain, but he was driven into Mobei by the official army of 200 cavalry. How can a single thief fight against the official army? No matter how powerful he is, he is driven into Mobei by 200 soldiers.
Whether they are looting thieves or mutinous rebels, no one can do it alone, joining forces is the general trend."
Three thieves from rough backgrounds, you look at me, I look at you, the three different faces are filled with the same ignorance.
Gao Yingxiang turned to look at the ignorant three people, sighed, and looked at Bu Zhanni with expectant eyes: "Do you know what the general trend is?"
Bu Zhanni knew, but he couldn't answer it and didn't know how to describe it in words.
On the contrary, the dirty monkey with a hairy head came up to him with a ruthless look on his face: "Compare the size, the bigger one wins!"
"Yes! The general trend is that from Fugu to Jinsuoguan, you can go in and out to plunder all directions, retire and recuperate, defend the border troops in the north and attack the pass in the south, and confront the government troops in a separatist manner!"
Gao Yingxiang knew where his desire to join forces with Liu Shizi came from.
The leaders of the gang around us need to be courageous, courageous and courageous, but they are not from a good background. Rebellion depends entirely on the strength of their heads and arms.
It's not that they can't achieve great things, everything is learned, and Gao Yingxiang's own background is not good, but after being a horse bandit for so many years, he has suffered a lot, and naturally has a lot to think about.
Given time, these leaders can achieve great things.
Only, they don’t have that much time.
The imperial court will not give them time to grow up, and the emperor in the Forbidden City will not give them time to study.
The Huntian Monkey is distracted.
He didn't understand what Gao Yingxiang said, and he wasn't interested. Anyway, he believed in Gao Yingxiang. He just told him what he wanted to do. It was very annoying to go around in a big circle: "King Chuang, just say it, arrest him, that's the general trend...
...Ooh, here I come!"
Several people looked up to the other side, and several of the horse soldiers they sent to deliver the message galloped back.
Gao Yingxiang looked over and saw that the leading young man had broad shoulders, a broad helmet and armor, and a face with sharp edges. He no longer looked like the fat boy in the Mizhi County jail. He laughed loudly and said: "What a great Liu Shishi. See you there."
Master, won’t you dismount?”
"Hey, it's not good to use your status to pressure someone when you meet them." Liu Chengzong didn't dismount, he held the red flag between his legs and was ready to retreat at any time, and said with a smile: "Where is the master who smashes the door knocker of his disciple's house?"
On the pontoon, Gao Yingxiang turned around and smiled at a few people and said, "I'll just say he holds a grudge."
After saying that, he turned around and asked: "I'll pay you, what do you want?"
What else could Liu Chengzong want? He said: "Food, my people don't have enough food."
"No problem, I'll pay you for the food, I don't care if you have enough to eat...but."
Seeing Gao Yingxiang's quick response, Liu Chengzong turned over and was about to dismount. Suddenly, he heard Gao Yingxiang say something again, and Fu Po's body paused: "But what?"
"I returned the door knocker to you, so you should also return my decapitated meal."
Same question, different mouth.
Liu Chengzong asked: "Then what do you want?"
"Come back to Shaanxi with me, finish what you haven't finished, and demolish all the express delivery shops north of Jinsuoguan."
Liu Chengzong raised his face and said with a smile: "Easy to say."
As soon as he finished speaking, he got off his horse, cupped his fists and said, "Student Liu Chengzong, pay your respects to Master Gao."
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Good morning! Today I will post one scene and one story together.