Chapter four hundred and fiftieth seven inferences
Within the northern border wall of Suzhou, there is the Beida River. The place guarding a low flat mountain in Hebei is called Maliantan. The soil is hardened and full of salt and alkali.
Malian, also known as Malin, is a salt-alkali tolerant plant. It often grows in overgrazed saline-alkali pastures. Its leaves can be used as feed for cattle, sheep and camels, and can also be used for papermaking and weaving. Its roots can be used as brushes, and its flowers can be used as medicine as a diuretic.
It is a laxative. The seeds can be used as medicine to remove dampness and heat, stop bleeding, detoxify, reduce fever, and repel insects. It is a treasure all over the body.
But on the evening of the tenth day of March in the seventh year of Chongzhen, the only useful characteristic of the large patches of horse rush on Malian Beach that had just turned from yellow to green was that they were not afraid of being trampled.
Because two pond riders in the northwest are fighting on this salt-alkali beach.
When Tang Qi saw Tang Qi, they were dressed in the same clothes and came from the same background. There was no talk of old or new grudges. Both sides had their own agenda and could not help themselves. The purpose of fighting was only to cover the battlefield. Therefore, they often used bows, arrows and muskets to shoot at each other, and they all refused to get close.
Fighting.
Suzhou Counselor Zhao Zhirui appeared in Pingshan with a dusty appearance, looking at Maliantan where Tangqi were fighting at the foot of the mountain, his eyes were cold.
For two days and nights, they followed Zhang Tianlin, eating sand, and walked in a large circle of 200 miles in the defense area. They lost two forts and a pasture, and the two mountain pass camps were burned to rubble. Now the green smoke is floating behind them.
This left them with no place to vent their anger.
Zhao Zhirui was not carried away by his anger because the situation on the battlefield was not right.
His Tang soldiers came from the front group and chased the enemy's rear Tang soldiers for twenty miles. The Tang soldiers at the rear of the Marshal's Mansion kept fighting and retreating. His Tang soldiers kept pursuing and fighting until they entered Maliantan.
, the battle line of the Tang soldiers at the rear of the palace stabilized, and they turned to fight with them.
If you want to maintain a stalemate in the process of retreating and advancing, the retreating army will have to pay many times the price, because the soldiers it spreads out for twenty miles will gradually come in with reinforcements, forming a situation of using more to fight against fewer.
They were supposed to have the upper hand. The battle lines were gradually spread out. Nearly two hundred Tangqi from both sides formed a squeezing front on the Gobi. They still failed to break through the enemy's blockade on Malian Beach. That only meant one thing.
What happened——The enemy’s main force turned back.
In this kind of scene, foreign generals may be frightened by the squeezed front and dare not move, but for Zhao Zhirui, all he has to do is write a letter on his face, which is like a public sign.
He had already learned about the enemy's whereabouts through the reports coming from the border wall. The leading general was named Zhang Tianlin. He was a frontier soldier who had become a bandit in northern Shaanxi. His nickname was Guo Tianxing. He used to be in Yulin Town Yuhe.
The fort is now a general under the command of Han Han Liu Chengzong.
Yuhebao is a ghost place that produces talented people. When Zhao Zhirui saw this background, he despised Zhang Tianlin. He thought that those who came from Yuhebao must be direct descendants of Liu Chengzong. Most of them didn't have any great skills and relied on connections.
Think about it, coming from Yuhebao, with such qualifications, he must have accompanied Liu Chengzong all the way. If he is really capable, he must occupy a position among the five tigers of the handsome family no matter what?
The Gansu generals didn't know much about the Marshal's Mansion. The only generals they knew were Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu, who showed off their skills in the Hehuang Battle. Both of them were deserters from the Guyuan mutiny. Logically speaking, they were not direct relatives. After the war, they were both named brigade marshals and marshals.
There are five brigade marshals in the government, namely Yang Yao, Wang Wenxiu, Basang, Xie Erhu, Mo Yujing...
Zhao Zhirui had heard about Yang Yao and Wang Wenxiu, and he also knew about Mo Yujing, who used to be a general in the imperial court. As for Xie Erhu, he didn't know what Basang was capable of, but he also knew where he came from.
In Zhao Zhirui's heart, these five people respectively represent the old bandits, Tatars, Fanzi, and Jiangjun in the Marshal's Mansion.
If Zhang Tianlin, who played the whole game, is really capable, can she let outsiders from other places ride on her head? Obviously the people in Yuhebao are not very capable.
There is actually nothing wrong with Zhao Zhirui's judgment, but the conditions at the beginning were wrong. Zhang Tianlin is not a direct descendant of Liu Chengzong. Even if this guy falls into the trap later, it is very likely that Liu Chengzong will be a direct descendant of Zhang Tianlin.
Although he still hasn't figured out the establishment of the Marshal's Mansion, how could Zhang Tianlin, a general, lead more than 5,000 horses, but at least the specifications of these 5,000-strong Tangqi are no different from those of an army battalion, all the way.
Twenty-four ponds, five riders per pond.
The road here is divided into two directions.
Zhang Tianlin has two Tangqi. There are no roads in the areas of Maliantan and the northern border wall. They are all Gobi and desert. There is no need to separate the troops unless they separate the cavalry for fast travel.
The normal distance between two Tangqi riders is one mile. Currently, there are more than a hundred enemy Tangqi soldiers on the ten-mile-wide Malian Beach. These people should have spread out within ten miles.
So for Zhao Zhirui, this scene is Zhang Tianlin conveying the military information to him very straightforwardly: the enemy's main force has turned back ten miles, and the infantry and cavalry got out of touch during the march.
The distance between them was only forty or fifty miles. Zhang Tianlin turned back and walked for a while. Zhao Zhirui judged that the distance between him and Zhang Tianlin should be about thirty miles.
Zhao Zhirui is fighting at home and is familiar with every plant and tree here. Further north from Maliantan across the long stretch of sand is the Great Wall side wall. To the east is the Beida River that extends to the Golden Pagoda Temple outside the Great Wall. The surrounding areas suitable for battlefields are only
The dozen or so miles between Maliantan and Huangtuyazi.
There was no point in continuing to advance his front line. Seeing that the sun had already set, he figured that the battle should start tomorrow morning, so he made a bold plan.
Zhao Zhirui summoned his subordinate Qian Zongmi to attack Pingshan, drew a sketch with branches under his feet, and gave all his analysis. Then he said: "You lead your nine hundred cavalry to station in Pingshan, hold back the bandits' soldiers, and collect firewood."
, Tomorrow morning smoke will rise from the mountains and we will retreat to Linshui Station on the east bank of the Beida River."
He pointed to the north side of Maliantan on the sketch and said: "The thieves' infantry and cavalry are out of touch. I led the cavalry from the west to the north to bypass Maliantan. I kicked their infantry camp tonight. If the enemy doesn't chase you tomorrow morning, you
I will meet up at Linshui Post City; if it is better for the bandit army to pursue you, I will be behind them and wait for them to cross both sides of the river to invite attack."
Qian Zongmi Layin had no objection to this order, accepted the order with his fists clasped, and went to make arrangements.
Not long after, Zhao Zhirui led 1,500 riders from the south of Pingshan to the north around Zhaobi Mountain. They were not worried about being discovered, because there was a desert beyond Zhaobi Mountain to the west, let alone finding a needle in a haystack, even if they wanted to dig in.
It’s easy to get lost.
Only if you go north, you don't have to worry about getting lost, because there is the indicator of the Great Wall in the north.
Zhao Zhirui's plan was very simple. He walked twenty or thirty miles north to the Great Wall, then appeared behind Zhang Tianlin and kicked out the infantry camp...
The plan was very thorough. He did not want to send reconnaissance cavalry from the west to alert the snake, so he went to Zhaobi Mountain to get some camels from the herders stationed there, and prepared to order the messengers to ride straight to the Jinta Temple Castle outside the border to see the Jinta Temple Castle.
What is the situation?
But before his messengers were on their way, the postmen from the Jinta Temple Fort had already ran over with a letter from guard Li Junen.
Zhao Zhirui was originally quite puzzled as to why there was a postman outside the border wall, so he intercepted the postman and called him to him, and opened the letter.
The postman's name was Suokang, and he was indeed very familiar with the business of the post. He said that he was the postman of Linshui Post. His younger brother was serving as a soldier in Jinta Temple Fort. Seeing that spring was about to begin, he had to help his younger brother pawn his winter clothes in Suzhou.
Received a military letter along the way.
Zhao Zhirui understands this matter. He has been owed wages for some time, and he can't wear winter clothes in the summer anyway. It would be appropriate to pawn them for money first, and then redeem them with more money after the court pays them.
Opening the letter, it was indeed the handwriting and seal of Li Junen, the garrison of Jinta Temple, requesting Suzhou to allocate soldiers and horses, saying that there were hundreds of Tatars sneaking outside the fort, and there were not enough soldiers and armor to destroy them.
This cannot be faked.
Zhao Zhirui thought that this matter was settled!
The garrison of the Jinta Temple Fort asked Suzhou for ordnance. He must have not seen the traitor infantry coming out of the border wall. After asking the middle-aged postman in front of him, it was indeed the case. As if he had taken reassurance, he led the troops and hid their heads towards the border wall.
Go.
Little did he know that the yellow-headed gypsy in front of him, who was nearly fifty years old and had a low eyebrow, was Suokang, a famous man in the Three Tribulations Association.
In this yellow-headed Uighur's life of more than 40 years, he has been a postman for most of his life, but he is not from Linshui Post, but a post boy from Heiquan Horse Post at Gaotai Qianhusuo, and Master Chongzhen streamlined the post.
time, cut him off.
But Suokang has always felt that he is truly alive only when he leaves the inn. He joined the Sanjie Society in his forties. Although he was injured from running around in his early years and his physical strength was not as good as before, he could not resist the Sanjie Society's thirst for talents and became successful.
The king himself used the most capable general around him.
For the leader of the Huidao Sect who was born in northern Shaanxi, Suokang, who was well-informed in Gansu and was familiar with the roads, was a talent that could not be found even with a lantern.
He established the Sanjie Hui's underground station in Gansu and was a pawn tycoon in Zhangye and Wuwei, Suzhou. He pawned unnecessary armor and equipment for border guards at low prices, boosting domestic demand for the army and horse smuggling trade and funerals in Gansu Province, and caring for
The physical and mental health of the lonely elderly people, women and children left behind in the countryside has enabled hundreds of laid-off colleagues and children from post stations to regain employment, single-handedly reducing the unemployment rate of delivery workers by 34 percentage points.
He is the great hero of Gansu Town.
Suokang was ordered by Wang Ziyong to go to Suzhou to contact the disciples in the city and give them the prophecy to open the city gate. However, he did not expect to encounter an official army in the desert on the way. He was so scared that he was heartbroken.
It almost jumped out of my throat.
Fortunately, there was no danger. After leaving Zhao Zhirui's army, Suokang ran two miles towards Suzhou. Only then did he realize that Zhao Zhirui's army was heading north... and they couldn't get out of the border.
The wall wiped out their army?
He went to Suzhou because all the weapons of the Sanjie Society were taken away by Zhang Tianlin. Wang Ziyong thought that it was not a problem to be idle, so he made the next plan to rob Suzhou City and let him report the news...
There were more than 3,000 of them, relying solely on long and short weapons and a few cannons. They had neither horses nor bows and arrows. If they ran into Zhao Zhirui, it would be a one-sided massacre.
Thinking of this, Suokang quickly turned his horse around and ran northward in the desert at night. He rushed to the Jinta Temple before Zhao Zhirui arrived at the border wall and reported the news to Wang Ziyong.
Wang Ziyong was also shocked by this information. He didn't dare to ask for the Golden Pagoda Temple and Castle, so he quickly asked Zuitu Taiji to pack up and run north.
Ruitutaiji looked confused and asked: "Why are we running?"
Wang Ziyong looked at Guitu Taiji like a fool: "Aren't you going to run away when the army comes?"
In fact, thinking that the other person is a fool is often mutual.
In fact, Ruitu Taiji admired Wang Ziyong very much. They had only been together in Gansu for half a day, and Ruitu Taiji from Chahar had already realized the terrible talent of this guy who said he was not a Taoist and a monk.<
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He was able to unite everyone around him, and in a few words, he surrendered the Jinta Temple defenders who vowed to fight the Mongols to the death. He even assured the surrendered soldiers that their relatives in Gaotai and Suzhou would be protected.
Proper care.
It doesn't matter if this is bragging, but Wang Ziyong really conveyed such an order to his subordinates, and some of his subordinates actually ran out to carry out such orders and pass on messages.
Guitutaiji thought to himself, if his brother was half as good at deceiving people as Wang Ziyong, the Beiyuan Khan Court would never be able to break up.
But what should be despised, and Guitu Taiji also despises it very much, Wang Ziyong knows nothing about strategy and tactics except for the important things about this war!
Guitutaiji said: "Wang Hui leader, it's not you and me who should be worried now, but the horse bandit. This is a force divided into five sentries."
"The troops are divided into five sentries?"
Wang Ziyong leaned back slightly, and with a hiss in his mouth, he squinted at Guitu Taiji with disbelief on his face: "Suokang didn't say that the army was divided into five parts!"
Ruitutaiji was so anxious that he wanted to jump up and down, thinking that I, a native Mongolian, would be able to be beaten by your heavenly army. He grabbed forward with both hands and spread out the five fingers of one hand and said: "The troops are divided into five posts, which is to divide the troops into five.
Five parts to hold the enemy..."
He wrapped Wang Ziyong's arm with his open hand, and punched him from the other side with his fist: "Aren't the two parts also meant to push the enemy to death? Draw inferences from one example, Han people!"
When Guitu Taiji said this, Wang Ziyong understood. He gave him a thumbs up and said, "Taiji is high. He also understands the art of war and can speak idioms. You should not be Taiji. You should educate children in Gansu." Ruitutai Jixin said, who are you looking down on? We are the first-term Mongolian students of Xincheng Academy.
However, he didn't have time to talk nonsense with Wang Ziyong here, and urged: "There is no rush to educate the children. Wang Hui leader quickly told the horse bandit that the army was going to kidnap him."
"Open-minded!"
Wang Ziyong praised again, and then he quickly dispatched his men and ordered them to take multiple routes and quickly report the news to Zhang Tianlin.
Guitu Taiji was not open-minded. Zhang Tianlin robbed him of his weapons, equipment and mounts. The Han he hated the most in heaven and earth was Zhang Tianlin.
In another situation, he would have ignored this matter as long as he was fascinated by Huhu, but this would not work. Zhang Tianlin was holding his horse. If the horse bandit was eliminated, he would have to go back to find Liu Chengzong in disgrace.
It was already early in the morning when Zhang Tianlin received the news. She was curled up in a low tent in the sand, leaning on the belly of the war horse, and was sleeping beautifully. When she suddenly received such a piece of military information, she was frightened to death. Her eyes were as wide as bells, and she was thinking about tactics.
At dawn, I decided to ignore the front and deal with the pursuers behind me.
If Li Junen, the garrison of Jinta Temple Fort whom he captured from behind at noon, was attacked from both sides by the army, it would be a real reward.
In the early morning of March 11th, the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, as soon as dawn dawned, a particularly strange scene appeared on Maliantan and Pingshan Mountains. Smoke rose from the dark tents in the far distance of the desert. Smoke also rose from the top of Pingshan Mountain, but two
The troops did not even look at each other and evacuated their camps in the south and north.