Qingyang Mansion, on the large plateau outside Ningzhou City, is the residence of the governors of the five provinces.
The altar has been set up, and the sergeant placed half-lived pig heads, chickens, fish, fashionable fruits, candles, and incense burners on the table. Chen Qiyu held coarse incense and muttered words to the statue of the Earth God.
Military camps were dotted on the plateau. Ai Wannian, the deputy commander-in-chief of Gushan on Yulin East Road, who had rushed from Mizhi, had a sallow face, stood behind Chen Qiyu with his arms in his arms, looked at the statue of the Earth God on the altar, and sighed silently. Ai Wannian fought in Shanxi for several years and suffered from severe rheumatism and hemorrhoids. During the war, Mi Zhi's family was wiped out. After being promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of Gushan, the emperor allowed him to return to the guard for recuperation.
In half a year, the hemorrhoids on my body were cured, but on the contrary, my heart was hurt, and I vomited blood all the time. It seemed that I would not be able to live for a few more years.
Catching up with Liu Chengzong's eastward march, he was recruited by Chen Qiyu and rushed to Qingyang Mansion even though he was sick. As the commander of the second line of defense of the Ming Dynasty, he thought that the battlefield would soon be pushed to this side, and he recruited several groups of thieves.
The soldiers were stationed in Qingyang, but they didn't expect that Chen Qiyu would actually pay homage to the Lord of the Land.
And we have to worship every day.
He even suspected that Chen Qiyu had been secretly replaced by someone who looked similar. How could the dignified governor of the five provinces believe such a thing before the war?
Chen Qiyu, who devoted himself to worshiping the land, knew that all the generals under his command were puzzled by his behavior, and he himself did not understand it, but there was really nothing he could do - Tang Jiuzhou was missing.
A battalion of troops marched south from Huating County into Jingfu Mountain. They were supposed to appear in Longzhou in the south. It has been eight days, and they have never come out again, as if they have disappeared from the world.
When it comes to fighting, sometimes a battalion of troops is like a handful of sand. It's normal for it to be gone. But the problem is that Liu Chengzong didn't take action. Chen Qiyu has been sending people to keep an eye on Liu Chengzong's movements. Those tens of thousands of troops are stuck in six.
There was no movement on the winding mountain.
Chen Qiyu is confused.
Being rich in economics was of little help at this moment, so he had no choice but to turn to the Land Master for help.
After all, the real confrontation in this battle has not yet begun, and the metaphysics is already tilted in favor of the Marshal's Mansion.
Chen Qiyu thought to himself: Even if Liu Chengzong hadn't started killing people yet, City Wall had taken the lead and killed one of my generals, how come the mountains couldn't get past me? And they devoured a whole battalion of my troops!
After worshiping the land, Chen Qiyu summoned the camp commander who was responsible for keeping an eye on the battlefield in the west as usual, and asked: "There is no news from Tang Jiuzhou?"
The answer was the same as before. Chen Qiyu did not go into details, but just said to Ai Wannian: "Commander Ai, please move to Huating to prevent the enemy from attacking Pingliang."
Ai Wannian accepted the order with clasped fists. Chen Qiyu had discussed these matters with him early in the morning. Originally, he was transferred to Qingyang Mansion. His plan was to lead the Qi Army Battalion to wait for an opportunity to cross Liupan Mountain. When Liu Chengzong's main force entered the east of Liupan Mountain, he would leap forward to attack from behind.
Its second-line troops cut off their retreat.
However, Deng Qi and Tang Jiuzhou, who are serving as the main barracks, are both dead. Whether he will jump to the rear later depends on whether the front line can bear it.
In fact, the war situation itself was not that pessimistic. Tang Jiuzhou just entered the mountainous area and did not come out. He might have encountered something bad. However, Deng Qi fell to his death before the war started. It was like a gust of wind blew the big banner into pieces before the battle, leaving the Ming army
From the coach to the soldiers, everyone’s mentality has collapsed.
No matter what news comes from the front line, people can't help but think in a bad direction, saying that Tang Jiuzhou has been captured by Mandrill, but it turns out that some people really believe it.
After all, no matter how bizarre it is, can it be more bizarre than Deng Qi being thrown to death from the city wall?
In comparison, Liu Chengzong had more confidence in the generals of the Ming army.
Not only did he not believe that Tang Jiuzhou had an accident in the mountains, he even didn't believe that Tang Jiuzhou got lost in the mountains.
It was a coincidence that a general fell to death before the war started. There won't be so many coincidences in the world. What's more important is that Liu Shizi believes in everyone's ability to lead troops. Generals in this era will not make such low-level mistakes as getting lost.
Error.
He was convinced that he was in a period of great success in producing many good generals. In these years when he was leading troops in wars, every one of them was a famous general.
After all, the intensity of wars is different. In the relatively peaceful years of Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, a small soldier might become a general officer after a battle. A soldier who had been in the army for thirty years might not be able to do more than just a soldier.
Those battles were fought.
Because there aren’t that many battles to fight.
And what era is this now?
The conflict between the Ming Dynasty, the Peasant Army, Mobei Mongolia, Monan Mongolia, and Hou Jin Dynasty intensified unprecedentedly. The wars continued year after year. The entire land of China was not without war for a few years. Only those who fought thirty battles, large and small, in just a few years.
Walking all over the place, there are many generals who have survived hundreds of battles.
Almost every general who can lead a battalion alone in a battle has countless practical combat experiences. Surviving by chance in such a cruel war may not necessarily mean you are outstanding, and being killed by chance does not necessarily mean you are inferior in skill.
The determining factor is largely luck, as well as the support and help behind you.
Therefore, Liu Chengzong never thought about the possibility of getting lost in Tang Jiuzhou. If he dared to go into the mountains and forests here, he still didn't know how to use the village guide to guide him? Even Li Hongsi, who had never taken office at that time, approached Suzhou because he didn't know how to use it.
If you are familiar with the terrain, just don’t go in.
He felt that if Tang Jiuzhou dared to enter Jingfu Mountain, which had no official roads or post roads, he would have to rely on him; wandering in circles in the mountains was nothing more than discovering that Marshal Juntang's soldiers were intercepting him in front and behind, and he changed his tactics to lure the enemy in Jingfu Mountain.
Liu Chengzong has always been good at capturing the intentions of enemy generals. As long as the enemy generals reveal any clues about their intentions, he will instill will around the enemy's intentions on the battlefield, and this time is no exception.
Originally, he was bound to annihilate Tang Jiuzhou's troops near Longzhou, but when he discovered that Tang Jiuzhou had the intention of luring the enemy into the mountains, he immediately stopped worrying.
Luring the enemy is a tactic that maximizes strengths and avoids weaknesses. In Liu Shizi's understanding, the tactics and preset battlefields chosen by everyone must be the most beneficial choice for them after careful consideration.
For example, if you defend a city with a strong wall and a clear field, it must be because the defenders think that defending the city is more advantageous than fighting in the field; those who dare to leave the city to fight in the field naturally think that fighting in the field is better than the enemy - in this world, the leader of the war will not use his brains, and will attack everyone he sees.
He must have died in the 23rd year of Chongzhen.
Of course, Liu Shishi can understand, but that doesn't mean that his group of proud soldiers can accept Tang Jiuzhou's subtext.
During the military meeting, Gao Yingdeng frowned and said: "Why does Tang Jiuzhou think that leading a bunch of Changping brats can defeat our Western Army in the mountains of Shaanxi?"
Zhang Tianlin kept silent about this matter, but if he could fight, he would have started shouting.
The two camps of Gao Yingdeng and Wei Qian'er are relatively normal mixed camps that can adapt to various situations. Especially in Gao Yingdeng's camp, the heavy gun team has one large, three, and four small lead pellets stuffed into one tube.
He is a ruthless character, and he looks like a cannon when he fights.
But Zhang Tianlin’s camp is different.
He is a member of his own family who knows his own affairs, so fighting Tang Jiuzhou in the mountains will really not get him any favors. After all, they are all cavalry troops. They don’t have heavy artillery, and their firearms are not that interesting. Their strength lies in rockets, and their effectiveness in mountain forest combat is very poor.
As for Wei Qian'er, he didn't say anything, he just stated his stance and hit wherever the commander pointed.
He knew that Liu Chengzong actually didn't value Tang Jiuzhou's tribe that highly, because Zhang Xianzhong came to see him when Liu Chengzong first knew that Tang Jiuzhou was moving south from Huating.
The Minister of Rites was the person with the most bad temper in the Marshal's Palace. When he approached Wei Qian'er, he made it clear that he had no soldiers, but wanted to deal with Tang Jiuzhou, so he came to seek Wei Qian'er's conspiracy to ask Liu Chengzong to fight - no
Enter Jingfu Mountain, but rush forward from the western foot of Liupan Mountain, take advantage of the emptiness of Huating from the west, and attack Tang Jiuzhou from both ends, suffocating him to death in the mountain.
Wei Qian'er did not agree to Zhang Xianzhong, but immediately went to Liu Chengzong: Your idea is good, and now it belongs to Mr. Wei.
But Liu Chengzong said at that time that it was not necessary.
It's the same now. Liu Shishi just smiled and said: "Why bother to compete with him for a while? Since Mr. Tang feels that he is better in the mountainous area and I am worse in the mountainous area, let him be better first."
He pointed at the map and said: "To the north, Yubu is hiding in the mountains to lure the enemy, so he can't go south. Let's go south. We just need to leave a battalion at the southern exit of Jingfu Mountain to block him. This matter... is high.
Come General."
In fact, Wei Qian'er plagiarized Zhang Xianzhong's plan to block both ends, which was quite tempting to Liu Shizi, because it was indeed feasible at the time.
The mountain road that Tang Jiuzhou took had many twists and turns, and the western foothills of Liupan Mountain were much easier to walk on. If a large battalion had rushed over at that time, the empty-defense Huating would have been unable to defend, and Tang Jiuzhou in the mountains would not have had time to return to defense. Blocking both ends would have been successful.
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It's just that the north is not Liu Chengzong's main attack direction. If Wei Qian'er's troops collide with the Ming Dynasty reinforcements stationed in Huating, it will increase the difficulty of commanding the next battle, so this seems unnecessary.
Compared with Tangjiuzhou in the mountains, Longzhou and Guanzhong are more critical places.
Before Wang Wenxiu arrived, Liu Chengzong left the three battalions of Luo Rucai, Yang Chengzu, and Li Wanqing to respond at the western foot of Liupan Mountain, and immediately ordered the remaining troops to descend from the eastern foot of the mountain.
Gao Yingdeng's camp was stationed at the southern exit of Jingfu Mountain in the north of Longzhou, and the army spread out. With the remaining two camps as the main force, Zhang Tianlin's troops took Baoji directly, while Wei Qian'er's troops rushed to Fengxiang Prefecture to clear the customs.
Pass through the middle road and seize the army's food and grass.
As for the remaining battalions, they will be stationed near Longzhou and prepare to capture Longzhou City.
Longzhou is a small city with a strategic location. It is built at the intersection of Beihe River, Wadi River and Mercury River. It is surrounded by rivers on three sides and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are only two ways to attack this city, either by waterway or by attacking alone.
West City Wall.
With only one side facing the enemy, there is no doubt that such terrain can bring huge advantages to the defenders.
Because of this, even though this city only has a thick wall about one foot high, it has never fallen despite being invaded by peasant armies many times in the past years.
However, today is different from the past. As the garrison mutinied, Deng Qi lost his footing and fell to his death. The Sichuan barracks rushed south to Baoji. Only a few hundred rural soldiers and civilians trained by Zhizhou Hu Erchun were left in Longzhou City. Facing him personally leading the army to cross the border, he defended the city.
The prosperity of the people has long been in turmoil.
Taking this city means that Liupan Mountain will be completely opened up. Soldiers and horses can be dispatched from Shanxi to Shandong, or retreat from Shandong to Shanxi, and there will be an important stronghold.
Liu Chengzong's army approached Longzhou City, and the soldiers and horses set up a company camp on the west side of the city and on the other side of the river in the south of the city. They approached the squires and people on the left to inquire about Hu Erchun's whereabouts, and they actually found out something very interesting:
Hu Erchun's position as the magistrate of Longzhou was actually won through connections.
The interesting thing about this matter is that due to the swarming uprisings of peasant armies and successive years of drought, the mortality rate of officials in Shaanxi was so high that people were disgusted with it. In many places, there were no chief officials at all, and no one wanted to be an official. The official positions of the fourth and fifth grades are lying on the ground, and no one has taken them for several years.
Hu Erchun, as for Hu Erchun, was a capable Jingkui who took third place in the civil service examination. He married Zhang Sizhi, a minister of the Ministry of Rites from his hometown, and became his son and daughter. After being recommended, he got the official position of Longzhou magistrate.
Liu Chengzong inquired about it and found out that Hu Erchun had been in Longzhou for more than three years and had done nothing major. The only thing he could do was to train more than 300 rural soldiers and repair the city walls.
Liu Shishi thinks this person is pretty good.
Shaanxi is experiencing severe drought and locust plague these days. What political achievements can it achieve?
There are no political achievements and no major troubles. Training troops and preparing for bandits to prevent small groups of bandits from entering is already the greatest political achievement.
What's even more interesting is that before Liu Chengzong sent a letter to Longzhou to persuade him to surrender, Hu Erchun in the city had already taken the initiative to write to him.
The tone of the letter is general, but the meaning is very clear. The people of Longzhou have not had it easy in recent years. The small town of Longzhou has no wealth and is not worth attacking. I hope Liu Chengzong will lead his troops to leave quickly and not to invade the place.
It is true that Liu Shixin said that the small town of Longzhou has little wealth, but to say that this geographical location is not worth attacking is to tell lies. However, he did not embarrass Hu Erchun. He just replied: "Longzhou is bound to be won, and attacking the city is inevitable.
The people were killed and injured. If Hu Zhizhou wants to avoid military disaster, it is better to open the city and surrender, and I will ensure that nothing happens in the autumn."
Hu Erchun was quite stubborn and refused to reply. A moment later, Ding Guodong, who was stationed in the west of the city, sent someone to report: "Commander, Longzhou Minzhuang has added a lot of defensive equipment to the west wall. It seems that it will defend to the death. The Gansu Third Battalion
We are ready for a strong attack."
On the earthen fortress in the south of the city, Liu Chengzong took another look at Hu Erchun's letter, sighed, "What a pity," and then waved to the messenger: "Tell General Ding to march."
To deal with such a dangerous city surrounded by rivers on three sides, there is no other way but to attack by force. It is impossible for him to fill up the river. The only thing that can be attacked is the west wall. The faster the city is attacked, the more likely the attackers and defenders will die in the siege.
The fewer people there are.
Just a moment later, with battle flags fluttering and war drums rumbling, Ganzhou battalion commander Bee Tail Needle took the lead with artillery, setting up a Qianjin artillery position four hundred paces away, and then launched a bombardment on the battlements of the west city wall amidst the roar of artillery fire, suppressing the city.
Several artillery pieces at the head.
The Second Battalion of Suzhou and Liangzhou, led by Ding Guodong and Milayin, followed suit and used guns and chariots as cover. They used mules, horses and carts to transport door panels, earth and rocks, and built bunkers more than a hundred steps below the city, further increasing the amount of lead sprayed towards the city head.
Marutetsuko, at the same time began to bury the trench in the west of the city.
Under the west wall of the city, Zhizhou Hu Erchun, who was clutching Liu Chengzong's letter urging surrender, listened to the roar outside the city, looked at the figure wearing a plain gauze python suit beside him, and the brocade-robed fanzi holding a knife next to him, and felt bitter. p>
It's not that he doesn't mean to surrender, it's just that the Shaanxi garrison eunuch is beside him, how can he open his mouth to surrender? End of chapter