On June 28, Gao Yingxiang sent a letter asking Liu Chengzong to help him find a boat on the Yellow River.
He grabbed another handful, and there were quite a few grain carts in his hand. There was a blockage of officers and soldiers on the Hancheng side, and the large group of carts and horses couldn't get through.
Liu Chengzong made a choice. He originally wanted Gao Yingxiang to come over from Yanshui Pass, and asked Fu Renxi why he couldn't come over for a while.
I sent two guards to Yanchuan and found out that the floating bridge was gone and had been destroyed by Gao Yingxiang.
As soon as the wounded soldiers could walk, Liu Chengzong ordered his troops and led the troops out of Lion Bay and marched southeast.
When Yang Dingrui heard that he was going to lead his troops to Hukou to see the waterfall, he also ran out.
After passing Yunyan Town, they also let the Gansu soldiers take a look at the battlefield where they defeated the Yanzhou soldiers, as well as the ancient city ruins in the east of the town and the cliff stone carvings with emerald clouds and rocks.
Even though it was a group of wounded soldiers crossing the border, it still frightened the people in the east of Yichuan County. Liu Chengzong hurriedly asked the Han brothers to go and pacify the people along the way.
Otherwise, with this situation, all the people who go to the Yellow River will be gone, and borrowing or renting a boat will just become a boat robbery.
When the soldiers arrived at Hukou, Liu Chengzong looked at the majestic mountains and the mighty rivers, and he had only one feeling in his heart.
Angry.
I am angry that I am not on the other side of the Yellow River, and I am also angry that the drought has caused the Yellow River to have less water.
Hukou is so spectacular when viewed from the other side of Shanxi, but it’s almost boring when viewed from Shaanxi.
But this scene is quite interesting to the Ningxia recruits among the wounded soldiers: Hey, amazing! There is such a thing in the Yellow River!
After watching for a while, Liu Chengzong asked the Han brothers to run horses along the river south of the waterfall to collect civilian boats.
He asked Yang Dingrui: "Sir, why doesn't this place build a bridge?"
"There used to be a bridge here. In the early Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian soldiers captured Shanxi. In order to send troops to cross west, they recruited civilians to build an iron cable bridge. In the early years of the Chinese dynasty, the bridge was destroyed. Later, it was used as a ferry and was not built again."
Nowadays, there are bandits everywhere and boats are hard to find. Only six boats were found here in Shaanxi, but there is a Hukou Ferry in Shanxi and there are more boats.
Eight miles south of Hukou is Xuanwan, with a wide river surface and gentle water flow. It is called Boat Nest and is a ferry operated by Shanxi merchants.
But Yang Dingrui said: "On the other side, there were mulberry trees in the Spring and Autumn Period, so it was called Caisangjin in ancient times, and Boathouse is the name of the people in recent times."
After searching south for several miles, he still couldn't find a suitable boat. Gao Yingxiang was so anxious that he took a boat to cross over.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Master Gao. He looked excited and anxious, saying: “With these thirty-odd boats, how long will it take for my people to cross?”
Liu Chengzong smiled and asked: "Master Gao, how many people do you have? Thirty ships are not enough?"
"Not enough!"
Gao Yingxiang waved his hand with pride written on his face: "Now we have 8,000 soldiers, 12,000 donkeys and mules, and more than 3,000 two-wheeled carts alone. Think about it, how long will this take?"
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As he said that, Gao Yingxiang showed a complacent look and whispered to Liu Chengzong: "There is more food, and these trucks can't finish it in three trips."
Liu Chengzong did the math and found that Gao Yingxiang had obtained at least 80,000 to 90,000 shi of grain before he dared to say that so many trucks could not be transported in three trips.
Gao Yingxiang saw him lowering his head and counting. There was pride on his face, but more of it was boredom. He said: "It's thanks to you that you proposed zoning for grain harvesting in Qingjian. Zuo Guazi and King Huntian didn't enter Shanxi. You
Come back to beat Aimu, half of Shanxi's wealthy landlords..."
Liu Chengzong was amused by the way he said this.
The Gao Yingxiang he knew was unsmiling and taciturn. He had never seen him talk so much and be so complacent.
Rare.
Gao Yingxiang came across from the Yellow River and saw the group of wounded soldiers around him. Even Liu Chengzong himself was injured, and he thought to himself: The Lion Battalion is facing He Huchen with heavy casualties.
He wanted to comfort him, so he asked: "How many soldiers are there in the Lion Camp? Don't worry, you don't have to worry about soldiers' food. There are plenty of them."
"Alas."
Gao Yingxiang sighed, patted Liu Chengzong on the shoulder and said: "Next time, next time the army goes to suppress the army, I will go to fight and you will collect food."
Although food is a good thing, wealth is also a good thing.
But this time it was really disgusting to rob Gao Yingxiang. He never wanted to collect food again in his life.
Liu Chengzong sighed: "Many heroes have died in the Lion Camp. When the work sentry comes back, there will be less than 6,000 soldiers left."
"Huh?"
Gao Yingxiang looked sideways, blinked and asked: "I remember that you led the army back to Shaanxi to attack Aimu. You brought more than 3,500 people with you. Did you recruit new soldiers? You also recruited a lot."
As he said this, he shook his head. In the current environment in northern Shaanxi, it is already difficult to recruit two to three thousand people.
If other leaders recruit thousands of people, then it is possible that they are not scrupulous about meat and vegetables.
But according to his understanding of Liu Shishi, Liu Chengzong, who has always pursued a policy of elite troops, would never be able to recruit thousands of people in northern Shaanxi as long as he did not change the recruitment conditions.
Even under normal circumstances, among the ten thousand hungry people, there are only 500 who meet the recruitment standards of the Lion Camp.
But now south of Suide and north of Jinsuoguan, where are there tens of thousands of refugees within the scope of the Lion Camp?
Those who could escape had already escaped, those who could not escape were all dead, and the rest were under the command of various leaders.
It’s not like the first two years of the drought.
Gao Yingxiang's face was full of doubts. How could he defeat a strong enemy twice and still have more and more soldiers from the Lion Battalion?
The answer to his doubts was Liu Shizi's understatement: "Congratulations to Huchen, the Ningxia soldiers, less than two thousand, have surrendered."
With these words, Gao Yingxiang temporarily exited the chat room.
He just said it casually, but in fact there were many battles in Shanxi.
When he entered the Jin Dynasty, he had tens of thousands of troops under his command, but they were scattered by a hailstorm. Later, he gradually gathered troops and recruited troops along the way, and there were many mutinies.
Before he grabbed the food, the officers and soldiers didn't want to pay much attention to him, and they only fought a few battles.
But after he robbed a lot of food, the officers and soldiers kept appearing from various places without fighting him, just to rob the baggage.
Some troops even didn't line up with him. Instead, the cavalry soldiers pounced on them, grabbed the baggage, carried more than a hundred kilograms of grain, threw it on their horses, and then led the horses away.
As a result, Gao Yingxiang fought several stupid fights.
He couldn't leave. There was so much food and property that he couldn't just throw it away.
What's more, even if he threw it, he couldn't throw it into the Yellow River to the officers and soldiers, so he knew it would be stupid to stand still and fight, but he could only do that.
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But Liu Chengzong simply defeated the commander-in-chief of the Ningxia border army and surrendered 2,000 people. How many people did he have to attack you?
After a while, Gao Yingxiang adjusted his mood, nodded and asked: "Lion, I want to ask you something. Tell the truth to the master."
Liu Chengzong asked: "What?"
Turning his head, Gao Yingxiang frowned and asked very seriously: "When you were born, was there any vision from the sky?"
He confused Liu Chengzong.
In fact, Gao Yingxiang was not as serious as he appeared. It was just that it was really difficult to adjust his emotions just now. He had been slowing down for too long, and he was afraid of appearing embarrassed, so he asked this as a joke.
Unexpectedly, Liu Chengzong nodded naturally and said: "Yes, I am one month older than the emperor. He was born on the fourth day of the twelfth lunar month in the thirty-eighth year of Wanli, and I was born on the first day of the twelfth lunar month."
"What kind of vision is this...Wait a minute, thirty-eight years of Wanli."
Gao Yingxiang thought for a moment, then suddenly widened his eyes and said, "Are you talking about the Tengu eating the sun?"
"Master Gao, do you know?" Liu Chengzong was happy and said: "Yes, before my mother gave birth to me, it was dark for a whole hour. Po Wen was so scared that she couldn't find her way. It wasn't until I cried that it was dark." Gao Yingxiang looked at Liu Chengzong and nodded one after another. He was very impressed by the solar eclipse.
It was winter at that time, and Gao Yingxiang entered the horse smuggling business for the first time, walking south through the desert.
The officer at the border wall had been bribed, and he was only thirty miles away from safely entering the fortress. But he was unlucky and caught up with a group of Ye Bu outside the exit to take back the border wall.
If you are caught doing something like this, you will die. It is dark when you are completely devastated.
The reason why Gao Yingxiang was deeply impressed was not just because the solar eclipse saved him.
Also because around the time Liu Chengzong was born, Gao Yingxiang was kowtowing to God.
Gao Yingxiang summarized four known conditions.
First of all, regarding the hailstorm in Yonghe County, he felt that Liu Shizi was most likely God’s own son.
Secondly, on the day God gave birth to a son, he kowtowed to God.
Once again, God made him his son’s master.
In the end, he was eaten by Liu Chengzong.
After he cast a layer of mystery on his master-disciple relationship with Liu Shizi, Gao Yingxiang felt that he was also a person protected by God.
It may be a little difficult to want to die in this life.
After thinking about this, Master Gao was in a good mood: "I'll just tell you, you should tell people about this kind of things earlier in the future."
"Why should I tell people this early?"
Facing Liu Chengzong's rhetorical question, Gao Yingxiang waved his hand and said enigmatically: "You don't understand."
What does the surrender of Ningxia soldiers mean?
Those of you who were born with a vision of a meteor falling from the sky, right? If the meteorite didn’t fall and kill you all, that would be God’s kindness.
Gao Yingxiang, who was excited, saw more than thirty small boats transporting soldiers and supplies back and forth on both sides of the Yellow River, and clapped his hands relaxedly: "When will we enter Shanxi next time? I have made arrangements, and all the wealthy places south of Taiyuan have arranged for my own people.
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"Next time we go to Shanxi, we will have internal support."
Now his 8,000 troops are mainly hungry people from Shanxi, and there are less than 3,000 Shaanxi people in them.
The mountain people in western Shanxi have almost repeated the starvation to death in northern Shaanxi in the past two years. It is too horrible to watch.
Almost everything is the same.
In poor areas, if they are afraid of death, they will join hundreds of thieves; in wealthy areas, if they are afraid of thieves, they will do everything possible to suppress them.
Northern Shaanxi has suffered as much as Shanxi, and it is even more difficult than Shaanxi. After all, when there was a drought in Shaanxi, there were not so many mature old thieves running around.
Gao Yingxiang thought to himself that Liu Chengzong divided the territory in Qingjian, otherwise we don’t know what kind of chaos Shanxi would be this time.
But he didn't expect that Liu Chengzong said: "I don't plan to go to Shanxi, I plan to go to Guyuan."
"Guyuan? I'm familiar with that place. Why are you going there, collecting food?"
Gao Yingxiang traveled back and forth to military towns in Shaanxi when he was young and was very familiar with all places. He said: "Although there are Wangzhuang and pastures over there, it is a military town after all. It is not as wealthy as Shanxi, and you are not short of horses.
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"What's more, the Trilateral General Office is there, so when you go there, the court won't be able to send troops to suppress you?"
"Suppress."
Liu Chengzong said: "Master Gao stayed in Shanxi for a long time. He may not know what happened during this period. Wang Zuoguan was surrendered by the army, Wang Jiayin captured Fugu, and Du Wenhuan came to suppress me earlier. Because of Wang Jiayin's affairs,
Move back to the north."
"That's why you beat him with a cannon at Yanshui Pass for a while."
Even though Gao Yingxiang never received the exact news about Wang Zuoguan's surrender, he had some expectations in his heart, but he really didn't know about Wang Jiayin.
When he heard that Wang Jiayin was under siege, Gao Yingxiang immediately wanted to lead his troops to rescue him.
But then I thought: "No, Du Wenhuan was stationed at Yanshuiguan at that time. If he went north, he could just station in Yanchuan. Why would he go to Yanshuiguan?"
"He did it on purpose. If you fight him, it just falls into his hands. He may not want to go to Fugu to fight Wang Jiayin."
Gao Yingxiang said: "Then what are you waiting for? Without further ado, you and I will join forces and go to Fugu to help him."
Liu Chengzong waved his hand and said: "No, Master Gao, Wang Jiayin's short siege is not a big deal, but my friend who is aiding the Liao Dynasty in Jizhen sent someone to send a message. The court seems to be preparing for the Guan Ning army to enter the Guan to quell the rebellion."<
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"Guan Ningjun..."
In the shadow of the famous tree, officers and coaches are composed of elite officers and coaches from all over the country. They receive the highest military pay and are stationed on the front line. Everyone is frightened after hearing this.
Gao Yingxiang was no exception. He asked: "Then what do you mean by going to Guyuan and leaving Wang Jiayin alone?"
"Whatever, if you beat Guyuan, isn't this just helping Wang Jiayin?"
Gao Yingxiang understood, so he surrounded Wei and rescued Zhao.
The imperial court has limited military strength and cannot deal with everyone at the same time. As long as Liu Shizi attacks Guyuan, the generals on each side will first save Yang He, the governor of the three sides.
Wang Jiayin's side doesn't say it relieves stress, but at least it can be regarded as prescribing the right medicine.
"What about plundering Guyuan? You can see from the map that the place is quite big. In fact, it is a valley along the Qingshui River. The border soldiers mutinied just last year. Guyuan will not have a chance to make up for it for a while."
"Xiao Guan, remember, you must have it in your hand when going to Guyuan Xiao Guan."
Xiaoguan is located on the valley road in Liupan Mountain, which is self-evident to Liu Chengzong.
If you go to Guyuan and don't hold Xiao Guan in your hand, wouldn't it be in vain?
He asked: "Is the cannon easy to use?"
"It's very useful, although it's not very useful against enemies who don't form formations, and you can't always hit them accurately."
This was a disadvantage that Gao Yingxiang discovered in the later battles. He finally understood why Qi Jiguang had to promote continuous firing of Folang machine guns in the north instead of salvo firing.
Concentrated use of artillery can indeed achieve great results in battle, but when dealing with skirmishers, only accurate shots can lead to a fatal blow.
"As long as it's easy to use, we don't have a chance to make cannons for a long time. We must have an ordnance bureau, otherwise we won't be able to repair the cannons if they break."
"So, I plan to lead troops to the Lintao and Gongchang areas, occupy them, and raise troops in the fields."
When Gao Yingxiang heard what he said, he shook his head and said: "I'm afraid it's not a sign of recuperation and recuperation if you fight Guyuan before going to Lintao Gongchang."
"I definitely want to recuperate."
Liu Chengzong said: "But for a general military office as big as Lintao, we have to defeat it to make a living no matter what. But if we defeat another general general, I don't think it will be much worse than simply robbing the north and south of Guyuan."
"So it doesn't matter how we fight. It's better to do something big before Guan Ning's army comes. I estimate that when I reach Guyuan with my front foot, Guan Ning's army will come with my back foot."
Gao Yingxiang also thought this was true, so he asked: "Then when do you plan to set off?"
"Next month, once the injury is healed, we will set off!"